Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Give the cops hell!" a veteran shouted. His massed companions pressed in upon the police, now flailing with their clubs. The fighting spread with quick contagion. One policeman had his head bashed in. Veterans trampled him. Blood streamed down others' faces. Veterans swung scrap iron, hunks of concrete, old boards. General Glassford rushed into the melee, was knocked flat by a brick. Before he could get up. a veteran snatched off his gold police badge. A riot call brought 800 extra police to battle several thousand...
...Hell, that's nothing," a veteran flung back. "Lots of us were killed in France...
...street fighting gradually subsided. A legless veteran inside the Government building loudly challenged the police to remove him. He was ignored. General Glassford withdrew his forces. The B. E. F. cooled off, recovered its head. Commander Waters, who had kept out of the fray, nervously declared: "The men got out of control. There's nothing...
...looking mob animated by the essence of revolution." A week's delay by the President, he thought, "would have threatened the institution of our Government." According to the General, not one man out of ten in the B. E. F. was a "real veteran...
...Damned Lie!" Commander Waters raged against President Hoover's assertion that the B. E. F. was Red and criminal. "A damned lie!" he shouted. "Every man is a veteran. We examined the discharge papers of everyone...